Dirge Poems -1 Poem by ashok jadhav

1. Silence After Loss
The house has learned a deeper hush
Than night has ever known;
Even the clock refuses now
To speak when you are gone.
Your absence hums in every room,
A sound too still to hear;
Silence has found a voice at last—
It whispers, you were here.
2. Unspoken Grief
I carry tears I never cried,
Words folded in my chest;
The world assumes I have moved on,
But grief denies its rest.
My mouth performs the daily script,
My heart remains untrained;
Some sorrows live behind the eyes,
Where silence keeps them chained.
3. Memory versus Forgetting
Your name grows lighter on my tongue,
Yet heavier in mind;
I fear the day your face arrives
Without the ache behind.
To remember hurts, to forget wounds more—
Both roads exact their fee;
For love must choose between the pain
And empty memory.
4. Loneliness After Death
The crowd moves past me like a stream,
Their voices warm and near;
Yet none can cross the distance carved
When you are not still here.
Death did not leave me all alone—
It taught me how to stand
In rooms once shared, in lives still full,
With one unholding hand.
5. Regret and Unfinished Words
I practice what I should have said
In moments long since gone;
The sentences arrive too late,
Their meaning overdrawn.
Forgive me waits upon my lips,
Love knocks without reply;
The dead do not return our calls—
They teach us how to cry.
6. Time Frozen in Sorrow
The day you left refuses still
To move into the past;
Each morning circles back again
To moments meant to last.
Clocks obey the world outside,
But not the heart's demand;
Grief teaches time a different rule—
To stop at one command.
7. Acceptance of Mortality
I see myself in fading leaves,
In dusk that bows to night;
Your death has lent my eyes the truth
No mirror dared to write.
I walk more gently with my days,
Less certain, more aware;
For knowing life will end like this
Has taught me how to care.